On 4/23/2013 10:53 PM, Khangelani Gama wrote:
> We are running postgres 9.1 on CentOS 5. We can’t start up postgres .
> It complains about memory allocation . Please help
>
> FATAL: shmat(id=3342337) failed: Cannot allocate memory
>
is that the entire error message? it usually says something about
setting kernel.shmmax and/or shmall... for most flavors of linux, you
set these in /etc/sysctl.conf (and then update the live system with
"sysctl -p").
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